Jewish Heritage Europe

Czech Republic: Day of Jewish Monuments, 2022 (August 14)

The fifth edition of the Czech Day of Jewish Monuments will take place August 14.  More than 50 selected Jewish heritage sites in more than three dozen locations in Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia will be open to visitors. They … continue reading →

Italy: In Venice a new Smartphone App teaches Holocaust history via Augmented Reality and Stolpersteine

(JHE) — A new smartphone and tablet app teaches Holocaust history in Venice by using Augmented Reality to tell the stories of the people commemorated by Stolpersteine – Stumbling Stones – memorials and at other memorial sites around the city. … continue reading →

Czech Republic: Day of Jewish Monuments (Today!) Visit dozens of Jewish heritage sites all over the country — with the aid of a smartphone app and interactive map

Are you in the Czech Republic today? Take advantage of the fourth edition of the Day of Jewish Monuments to visit dozens of Jewish heritage sites around the country. More than 50 selected Jewish heritage sites more than three dozen … continue reading →

Poland: App launched to help volunteers (including tourists) document “forgotten cemeteries” (of all denominations) in Poland

Poland’s Cultural Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with technology company Laboratorium EE, has launched an app aimed at encouraging (and enabling) the volunteer documentation of abandoned, neglected, and/or remote Jewish and other cemeteries in Poland and elsewhere — by tourists and other … continue reading →

Call for participants: Free, intensive online training course July 22-Aug. 19 on developing self-guided audio tours

Calling all tour guides, tour operators, teachers, individual travellers, curators  – and other interested persons! Do you want to learn how to develop self-guided mobile audio tours? The Jewish Heritage Network (JHN), the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion … continue reading →